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Diane Ryan............................................................... 1<br />

On My Toes.............................................................. 2<br />

Go No Sen Karate................................................... 3<br />

Ultimate Collision Center....................................... 4<br />

Marshall Alarm Systems....................................... 5<br />

Anthony J. Centone, P.C......................................... 6<br />

Erika’s Spa De Beaute & Salon............................. 6<br />

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Putnam <strong>Valley</strong> Florist.............................................. 7<br />

Chicory Meadow Farm........................................... 8<br />

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<strong>Shrub</strong> <strong>Oak</strong> Custom Framing................................. 10<br />

Thyme Steak & Seafood...................................... 10<br />

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Campagna Pizzeria & Restaurant...................... 11<br />

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Raymond Opticians............................................... 13<br />

Tom Thumb Preschool.......................................... 15<br />

Gentle Care Pediatric Dentistry.......................... 15<br />

County Cooling...................................................... 16<br />

Things to do in<br />

Westchester County<br />

Tarrytown Lighthouse<br />

Tarrytown Light, also known as Kingsland<br />

Point Light and Sleepy Hollow Light, is a<br />

sparkplug lighthouse on the east side of<br />

the Hudson River in Sleepy Hollow, New York,<br />

United States. It a conical steel structure<br />

erected in the 1880s. In 1979 it was listed on<br />

the National Register of Historic Places.<br />

The need for a lighthouse to warn ships away<br />

from the shoals near the common route off<br />

Tarrytown and Ossining had been obvious<br />

by the mid-19th century. But high land values<br />

at two favored locations led the federal<br />

government to instead build it a 1/2 mile<br />

(0.80 km) offshore. It was the only family station<br />

on the lower Hudson, the only conical<br />

steel lighthouse on the Hudson to have living<br />

quarters within it rather than attached, and<br />

the only lighthouse in Westchester County. It<br />

remained in use until the mid-20th century;<br />

the construction of the Tappan Zee Bridge<br />

on the shoals where it stood, and the development<br />

of the General Motors Tarrytown<br />

Truck Assembly plant on land reclaimed<br />

from the river to its east, made the light obsolete.<br />

Today it is part of a county park, and<br />

tours are available.<br />

The lighthouse is situated just off the riverbank<br />

at the southern end of Kingsland Point<br />

Park. A 100-foot pedestrian bridge and riprap<br />

breakwater connects it to the shore. To<br />

its immediate east is a large vacant area,<br />

once the site of the General Motors North<br />

Tarrytown Assembly plant. Between it and<br />

the developed sections of Tarrytown are the<br />

tracks used by Metro-North Railroad’s Hudson<br />

Line, Amtrak’s Empire Service and CSX<br />

freight. The three-mile–long Tappan Zee<br />

Bridge carries the New York State Thruway<br />

across the river a mile to the south. Navigational<br />

aids had been part of travel on the<br />

river since before Europeans had arrived,<br />

and the hazardous shoals near the Tarrytowns<br />

had long been known. But even after<br />

the growth in commerce fueled by industrialization<br />

during the 19th century, it took a<br />

considerable amount of time to find a site<br />

for the lighthouse. It remained in service until<br />

the Tappan Zee Bridge’s construction made<br />

it redundant; since then expansion of the<br />

shoreline has also ended its isolation.<br />

The building itself is a five-story conical<br />

structure on a foundation of a stone pier<br />

and cast iron caisson that holds a concrete<br />

cylinder which accounts for half the light-<br />

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Did you know Martial Arts can<br />

positively contribute to a<br />

child’s confidence?<br />

My name is Adam McCauley, and it’s an<br />

honor to be part of Our Towns Finest publication.<br />

I’ve been working with children for over<br />

30 years helping them build better bodies &<br />

stronger minds through the Martial Arts. It is<br />

been my experience that training in Karate<br />

is much more than learning how to kick and<br />

punch. The training a child gets helps them in<br />

many more ways than just the physical selfprotection<br />

strategies learned.<br />

If you allow me to share with you some important<br />

traits children learn at my school, I’m<br />

sure you’ll get a different perspective about<br />

the Martial Arts. At the core of the Go No Sen<br />

Karate program students are encouraged<br />

to perform their very best - on an individual<br />

basis. By experiencing their own level of<br />

success, without the pressure of comparing<br />

themselves to others, the students slowly build<br />

their self-esteem and continue to challenge<br />

themselves to perform better each time.<br />

Students learn crucial life skills which can then<br />

be used in life and school. Students enrolled<br />

in our quality Martial Arts program:<br />

• Learn to Think for Themselves - When<br />

a child learns to develop their own critical<br />

thinking skills they are also learning to<br />

become an active participant of society<br />

and are better positioned to make<br />

clear choices. Critical thinking is often<br />

over-looked in schools despite its importance.<br />

Martial Arts training encourages<br />

students to be aware of their thinking as<br />

they perform certain tasks. They then use<br />

this awareness as a way to perform better.<br />

By critically thinking through exercises<br />

and activities students increase their<br />

confidence and their skills.<br />

• Learn How to Process Practical Knowledge<br />

- Martial Arts training applies practical<br />

experience and guides students with<br />

the knowledge of specific techniques<br />

that will become part of their continued<br />

Martial Arts trainings. Through the learning<br />

of these techniques the student becomes<br />

more confident in their abilities.<br />

They learn to appreciate the value of<br />

practicing and understand that in order<br />

to fully develop, they need to invest in<br />

their knowledge.<br />

• Benefit From the Direction of Skilled<br />

Mentors - Not only do the Martial Arts instructors<br />

here at Go No Sen Karate provide<br />

demonstrations of key techniques,<br />

the instructors also serve as positive role<br />

models to young, impressionable children.<br />

The instructors directly and indirectly<br />

model confidence and positive<br />

behavior traits to the students while also<br />

encouraging a mutual level of respect<br />

and friendship. Often, our instructors<br />

share personal experiences from their<br />

past with the students as a way to<br />

teach and deliver key messages.<br />

• Succeed and Learn From Their Mistakes<br />

- Both successes and mistakes<br />

are an important part of our Martial<br />

Arts experience. In the same way<br />

that a child learns from their mistakes<br />

in school or in life, mistakes in Martial<br />

Arts are looked at as a way to learn,<br />

try again and move closer to the end<br />

goal and a personal level of success.<br />

• Develop Personal Strengths - The<br />

pressures faced by young children<br />

while in school and their community<br />

can be intense. Martial Arts encourages<br />

students to do their best while<br />

also focusing on those areas in which<br />

they excel. By doing this, children develop<br />

a greater sense of confidence<br />

and this confidence stays with them<br />

as they grow and mature.<br />

I’m sure you agree that when a child learns<br />

how to stand for something, they won’t fall<br />

for anything! It has been my mission for the<br />

last 30 years to instill in children a desire<br />

to learn and succeed inside and outside<br />

the Martial Arts school. I encourage every<br />

parent to bring their child in so you can experience<br />

the transformations I have seen<br />

first-hand.<br />

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The Thomas Paine Cottage<br />

The Thomas Paine Cottage in New Rochelle,<br />

New York in the United States, was the home<br />

from 1802 to 1806 of Thomas Paine, author of<br />

Common Sense and Revolutionary War hero.<br />

Paine was buried near the cottage from his<br />

death in 1809 until his body was disinterred in<br />

1819. It was one of a number of buildings located<br />

on the 300 acre farm given to Paine by<br />

the State of New York in 1784, in recognition<br />

of his services in the cause of Independence.<br />

It was here in August 1805 that he wrote his<br />

last pamphlet, which was addressed to the<br />

citizens of Philadelphia on “Constitutional Reform”.<br />

The cottage has been owned by the “New<br />

Rochelle and Huguenot Historical Association”<br />

and has been operated as a historic<br />

house museum since 1910. The cottage is<br />

open to the public five days a week. There<br />

are several weekend events scheduled at the<br />

cottage throughout the year. In addition, the<br />

cottage hosts many local school field trips. It<br />

had 3,000 visitors in 2002.<br />

The cottage is a two-story wood-frame saltbox<br />

structure. It began as a simple building<br />

16 feet wide and 31 feet deep. In 1804, an<br />

additional 18 by 23 feet wing with a porch<br />

was constructed. An exterior door and porch<br />

pillars in the Greek Revival style were added in<br />

about 1830. The main house has three rooms<br />

set one behind the other; the kitchen in front,<br />

a common room in the center and a bedroom<br />

in the rear. The wing to the right contains<br />

the parlor and there are four bedrooms<br />

on the second floor. The entrance door and<br />

the pillars of the porch on the wing are Greek<br />

Revival and were added about 1830. The<br />

current arrangement has rooms decorated<br />

in the late 18th and early 19th century style<br />

as well as exhibits pertaining to the history of<br />

New Rochelle, the local Siwanoy Indians, and<br />

the Huguenots.<br />

The front door to the cottage enters directly<br />

into its main room, which is maintained as the<br />

“Huguenot Room”. The desk is said to have<br />

belonged to Jacques Flandreau, an early Huguenot<br />

settler of the town. Over the desk is a<br />

steel engraving from the celebrated painting<br />

at Versailles showing King Henry IV of France<br />

(Henry of Navarre) entering Paris through the<br />

unfinished Porte-Neuve on the morning of<br />

March 22, 1594.<br />

The rear room on the first floor is known as<br />

the “Paine Room”. On Christmas Eve, 1805,<br />

a gun was fired into this room in an attempt<br />

on Paine’s life. He described the incident in<br />

a letter:<br />

“Whatever the gun was charged with passed<br />

through about three or four inches below the<br />

window making a hole large enough to (allow)<br />

a finger to go through -the muzzle must<br />

have been very near as the place is black<br />

with powder, and the glass of the window is<br />

shattered to pieces.”<br />

There are several interesting items in this<br />

room. There are two chairs used by Paine<br />

when he boarded at Bayeau’s Tavern, almost<br />

directly across North Avenue. Another item is<br />

the stove set in the chimney. It was presented<br />

by Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Paine, and<br />

is one of the few real Franklin stoves in existence.<br />

Still another item is a warming pan<br />

which belonged to Mrs. Sarah Bache (1774-<br />

1808), daughter of Benjamin Franklin and<br />

wife of Richard Bache who was postmastergeneral<br />

of the United States from 1776-1782.<br />

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house’s weight, securing it in the river bottom.<br />

It is faced in welded steel plates. The<br />

base is painted red, the tower white, and<br />

the lantern room is black. There are eight<br />

windows at alternating intervals on the second<br />

and third stories, eight portholes evenly<br />

spaced around the fourth story and glazed<br />

glass around the lantern room. A catwalk<br />

with a roof supported by iron columns encircles<br />

the first story and provides access to<br />

the main entrance. Two additional catwalks<br />

are located around the fifth floor and the<br />

lantern room, the latter with a decorative<br />

iron railing. A flagpole rises from the fifth-floor<br />

catwalk’s east side.<br />

Inside, the entrance leads to the main living<br />

area, an 18-foot-wide living room and<br />

kitchen. Above them, the second and third<br />

stories, both 15 feet wide, had bedrooms.<br />

The wall interiors are faced in brick to better<br />

insulate them. The fourth floor, currently<br />

empty, was divided between a bedroom<br />

and a workshop. Its ceiling has glass inserts<br />

to allow light from the lantern to filter down<br />

into it. From it a ladder leads up to the watch<br />

area and lantern room. The 1,000-pound<br />

fog bell remains there, but its works have<br />

been removed. In the cellar are the original<br />

coal shed and cistern. A central column<br />

carries the cables and 50-pound weight<br />

that rotate the lantern.<br />

Navigational aids had been part of travel<br />

on the river since before Europeans had<br />

arrived, and the hazardous shoals near the<br />

Tarrytowns had long been known. But even<br />

after the growth in commerce fueled by industrialization<br />

during the 19th century, it took<br />

a considerable amount of time to find a site<br />

for the lighthouse. It remained in service until<br />

the Tappan Zee Bridge’s construction made<br />

it redundant; since then expansion of the<br />

shoreline has also ended its isolation.<br />

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Caramoor Center for<br />

Music and the Arts<br />

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is a<br />

former estate near Katonah, New York, which is<br />

about 50 miles north of New York City. Presently,<br />

it is a live music venue featuring symphonic, opera,<br />

chamber, American roots, and jazz, performances<br />

along with the historic home. Both are<br />

legacies of the house’s original owners, Walter<br />

and Lucie Rosen. The Caramoor Summer Music<br />

Festival is held there every summer. It also runs<br />

educational programs, and can be rented for<br />

events such as weddings.<br />

The Rosens built the estate gradually during<br />

the 1930s, its main house an imitation Italian<br />

villa. Many pieces of the buildings were imported<br />

from various European countries. The<br />

informal musical performances they hosted<br />

evolved into the beginning of Caramoor’s<br />

current offerings in 1945, and their collection<br />

of Renaissance-era and Chinese artworks,<br />

some rare, is on display throughout the estate.<br />

Lucie Rosen later donated it to the private<br />

organization that runs it today. In 2001 it<br />

was listed on the National Register of Historic<br />

Places.<br />

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Kykuit - Rockefeller Estate<br />

Kykuit known also as the John D. Rockefeller Estate,<br />

is a 40-room National Trust house in Westchester<br />

County, New York, built by order of oil tycoon,<br />

capitalist and Rockefeller family patriarch<br />

John D. Rockefeller. Conceived largely by his<br />

son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and enriched by the<br />

art collection of third-generation scion, Governor<br />

of New York and Vice President of the United<br />

States, Nelson Rockefeller, it has been home to<br />

four generations of the family.<br />

Kykuit, Dutch for “lookout”, is situated on the<br />

highest point in the hamlet of Pocantico Hills,<br />

overlooking the Hudson River at Tappan Zee. Located<br />

near Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow, it has a<br />

view of the New York City skyline twenty-five miles<br />

to the south.<br />

One of America’s most famous private residences,<br />

Kykuit was designed originally as a<br />

steep-roofed three-story stone mansion by the<br />

architects Chester Holmes Aldrich and William<br />

Adams Delano. Aldrich was a distant relative<br />

of the younger Rockefeller’s wife, Abby Aldrich<br />

Rockefeller, who was involved as artistic consultant<br />

and in the interior design of the mansion.<br />

The elder Rockefeller had purchased land in the<br />

area as early as 1893 after his brother William<br />

had built a 204-room mansion, Rockwood Hall,<br />

in the area.<br />

The initial eclectic structure took six years to<br />

complete. Before being occupied it was substantially<br />

rebuilt in its present four-story Classical<br />

Revival Georgian form. Completed during 1913,<br />

it has two basement levels filled with interconnecting<br />

passageways and service tunnels. The<br />

home’s interiors were designed by Ogden Codman,<br />

Jr., and feature collections of Chinese and<br />

European ceramics, fine furnishings and 20thcentury<br />

art.<br />

It was designated a National Historic Landmark<br />

during 1976. During 1979, its occupant, Nelson<br />

Rockefeller, bequeathed upon his death his<br />

one-third interest in the estate to the National<br />

Trust for Historic Preservation. As a result, Kykuit is<br />

now open to the public for tours conducted by<br />

Historic Hudson <strong>Valley</strong>.<br />

The imposing structure, of local stone topped<br />

with the Rockefeller emblem, is located centrally<br />

in a 250 acres inner compound (referred to<br />

as “the Park”) within the larger Rockefeller family<br />

estate. This gated compound is guarded at all<br />

times. Save family residences, the rest of the estate<br />

(known as the open space) is open to the<br />

public for recreational purposes, as it always has<br />

been.<br />

Initially, landscaping of the grounds was given<br />

to the company of Frederick Law Olmsted,<br />

who had designed Manhattan’s Central Park.<br />

Rockefeller senior was unhappy with this work<br />

however and assumed control of the design<br />

himself, transplanting whole mature trees, designing<br />

lookouts and the several scenic winding<br />

roads. During 1906, the further design of Kykuit’s<br />

grounds was undertaken by the architect William<br />

Welles Bosworth, who designed the surrounding<br />

terraces and gardens with fountains, pavilions<br />

and classical sculpture. These gardens in the<br />

Beaux-Arts style are considered Bosworth’s best<br />

work in the United States, looking out over very<br />

fine views of the Hudson River. His original gardens<br />

still exist, with plantings carefully replaced<br />

over time, although his entrance forecourt was<br />

extended during 1913. The terraced gardens<br />

include a Morning Garden, Grand Staircase,<br />

Japanese Garden, Italian Garden, Japanesestyle<br />

brook, Japanese Tea-house, large Oceanus<br />

fountain, Temple of Aphrodite, loggia, and<br />

semicircular rose garden.<br />

Nelson transformed previously empty basement<br />

passages beneath the mansion that lead to a<br />

grotto into a major private art gallery containing<br />

paintings by Picasso, Chagall and Warhol,<br />

the latter two having visited the estate. Between<br />

1935 and the late 1970s more than 120 works<br />

of abstract, avant garde and modern sculpture<br />

were added to the gardens grounds from<br />

Nelson’s collection, including works by Picasso<br />

(‘Bathers’), Constantin Brâncusi, Karel Appel<br />

(‘Mouse on Table’), Jean Arp, Alexander Calder,<br />

Alberto Giacometti, Gaston Lachaise, Aristide<br />

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Maillol, Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, Isamu<br />

Noguchi (‘Black Sun’), and David Smith.<br />

Kykuit was renovated and modernized during<br />

1995 by New Haven architect Herbert S. Newman<br />

and Partners. Included were major infrastructure<br />

changes enabling the estate to accommodate<br />

group tours of the first floor and art<br />

gallery, as were as a reconfiguration of third and<br />

fourth floor staff quarters into guest suites.<br />

The inner park area was opened to restricted<br />

conducted tours of the mansion and immediate<br />

surrounds during 1994, but remains occupied<br />

and controlled by the family by the Rockefeller<br />

Brothers Fund, which leased the area from<br />

the National Trust for Historic Preservation during<br />

1991 and serves as steward of what is referred<br />

to as “the historic area”.<br />

Public tours are conducted by Historic Hudson<br />

<strong>Valley</strong>, an organization established during 1951<br />

by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. “to celebrate the<br />

region’s history, architecture, landscape, and<br />

material culture, advancing its importance and<br />

thereby assuring its preservation.” Shuttle vans<br />

run from a visitor center located at the Philipsburg<br />

<strong>Manor</strong> House on Route 9 in Sleepy Hollow,<br />

New York.<br />

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Weston’s Devil’s Den<br />

The charcoal makers who once toiled<br />

in the vicinity believed a hoof-like mark<br />

made in a rock was the footprint of the<br />

devil, hence the Den’s name. But this<br />

Nature Conservancy property is really<br />

a place of beauty and ideal for family<br />

hikes. There are more than enough<br />

trails to trek and things to see in Fairfield<br />

County’s largest preserve, known formally<br />

as the Lucius Pond Ordway/Devil’s Den<br />

Preserve. The Den consists of more than<br />

1,756 acres containing some 20 miles of<br />

trails that wind through and over almost<br />

every kind of terrain typical to southwestern<br />

Connecticut. Maps as well as a selfguided<br />

tour booklet are available at the<br />

Pent Road parking area; all hikers should<br />

sign in for safety. The preserve is home to<br />

more than 500 types of trees and wildflowers<br />

and has red fox, bobcat, coyote,<br />

eastern copperhead, wood duck, ruffed<br />

grouse, pileated woodpecker and more<br />

than 140 other bird species. An estimated<br />

40,000 people visit the site each<br />

year; it’s part of the 70-mile Saugatuck<br />

<strong>Valley</strong> Trails System. The Den closes at<br />

times in the fall for hunting.<br />

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Teatown <strong>Lake</strong> Reservation<br />

Teatown <strong>Lake</strong> Reservation is a nonprofit nature preserve<br />

and environmental education center. The reservation<br />

includes an 1,000-acre nature preserve and education<br />

center located in the Westchester towns of <strong>Yorktown</strong>,<br />

<strong>Cortlandt</strong>, and New Castle. About 25,000 people come<br />

each year to hike the preserve’s 15 miles of trails, attend<br />

an education program, visit the Nature Center, or tour<br />

“Wildflower Island”. Teatown’s educators offer adult, family<br />

and children’s programs to 20,000 participants annually,<br />

including nearly 6,000 schoolchildren and 700 summer<br />

camp students.<br />

Known by locals simply as “Teatown”, the organization<br />

works to conserve biodiversity, teach ecology and<br />

promote nature-friendly living. Located in the heart of<br />

the Lower Hudson <strong>Valley</strong>’s Hudson Highlands bioregion,<br />

Teatown <strong>Lake</strong> Reservation’s mission is to conserve open<br />

space, educate citizens about the environment, and involve<br />

the public in order to sustain the diversity of wildlife,<br />

plants and habitats for future generations.<br />

Teatown conducts two annual celebrations that are open<br />

to the public: the Hudson River EagleFest and the Plant<br />

Sale. The EagleFest takes place in February each year,<br />

when winter conditions make eagles easier to spot as<br />

they search for prey on the Hudson River. The EagleFest<br />

offers visitors live raptor demonstrations in tents at Westchester<br />

County’s Croton Point Park. Short bus tours from<br />

Croton Point that take visitors to local eagle spotting sights<br />

up and down the lower Hudson <strong>Valley</strong> require reservations.<br />

Guides with scopes are located at the bus stops<br />

along the tour as well as at the Croton Point. About 2,500<br />

visitors took part in EagleFest 2008, and about 4,000 visitors<br />

took part in 2009. Several dozen non-profit organizations,<br />

governmental agencies and municipalities participate.<br />

Other nearby nature and culture centers, such as<br />

the Beczak Environmental Education Center, Croton Point<br />

Nature Center, Van <strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong>, and Constitution<br />

Marsh Audubon Center hold concurrent eagle-themed<br />

programs during the EagleFest week. Before and during<br />

the event, 5,000 free eagle spotting maps are distributed.<br />

The annual Nature Friendly Plant Sale celebrates the Cliffdale<br />

Farm legacy of Teatown and is a well-known source<br />

for local hardy and diverse garden plants. The plant sale<br />

takes place each spring<br />

An important part of Teatown’s mission is to teach ecology<br />

and encourage responsible interaction with nature.<br />

About 25,000 people come each year to attend an education<br />

program, visit the Nature Center, hike its trails, or<br />

tour Wildflower Island, a 2-acre island sanctuary located<br />

within Teatown <strong>Lake</strong> that is home to over 230 native and<br />

endangered species of wildflowers.<br />

Teatown’s educators offer a variety of environmental education<br />

programs, including weekend family and adults<br />

only programs, multi-week children’s series, school programs,<br />

school vacation camps, a summer camp, and<br />

special programs for Scouts and others organizations.<br />

Over 10,000 participants annually attend one or more<br />

such educational programs, including nearly 6,000<br />

school children and 700 summer campers. Annually,<br />

over 15,000 hikers traverse Teatown’s 15 miles of trails<br />

that span abundant fields, mixed forests, lakes, streams,<br />

swamps and farm land. Teatown volunteers also participate<br />

in the “Great Backyard Bird Count” sponsored by the<br />

Audubon Society each winter.<br />

Teatown’s Nature Center is a source of wildlife knowledge<br />

and home to a variety of amphibians, birds of prey,<br />

mammals and reptiles. The Nature Center also houses a<br />

store with books and small gifts. The Center often hosts<br />

gallery shows of art by area painters and photographers<br />

related to environmental themes.<br />

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<strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong><br />

<strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong> is a hamlet located in the Town of<br />

<strong>Cortlandt</strong> in northern Westchester County, New York.<br />

<strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong> is situated directly east, north and<br />

south of <strong>Peekskill</strong>, and east of three sections of the<br />

Town of <strong>Cortlandt</strong>, Croton-on-Hudson, Crugers, and<br />

Montrose. Most of the area is made up of residential<br />

homes. <strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong> also encompasses <strong>Cortlandt</strong><br />

Estates.<br />

The term “<strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong>” derives from the history<br />

of Westchester County. Until the Revolutionary War,<br />

Westchester County was split into 6 manors one of<br />

which was “<strong>Cortlandt</strong> Manoor” shown on a map<br />

circa 1760 where “<strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong>” extended from<br />

the Hudson River to Connecticut.<br />

Until 1991, this area shared a mailing address and<br />

ZIP Code (10566) with the city of <strong>Peekskill</strong>. Although<br />

it now has its own ZIP code, <strong>10567</strong>, many directories<br />

and censuses still do not include <strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong>,<br />

because it is an unincorporated section of the Town<br />

of <strong>Cortlandt</strong>. The <strong>10567</strong> zip code was created by<br />

the US Postal Service to differentiate this part of the<br />

Town of <strong>Cortlandt</strong> from Cortland, New York, which is<br />

located hours away in upstate <strong>NY</strong>.<br />

The Van <strong>Cortlandt</strong> Upper <strong>Manor</strong> House” is located off<br />

Oregon Road in <strong>Cortlandt</strong> just outside the <strong>Peekskill</strong><br />

city limits. The Upper <strong>Manor</strong> House was part of the<br />

estate of Stephanus Van <strong>Cortlandt</strong>, the colonial aristocrat<br />

and patroon who owned nearly all of northern<br />

Westchester County in the late 17th century. The more familiar centerpiece<br />

of the old estate, Van <strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong>, is located in the nearby<br />

village of Croton-on-Hudson.<br />

<strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong> residents are served by Hendrick Hudson Central School<br />

District, <strong>Lake</strong>land Central School District, and Putnam <strong>Valley</strong> Central<br />

School District. Two schools in Hendrick Hudson Central School District<br />

are located in <strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong>: Furnace Woods Elementary School and<br />

Blue Mountain Middle School, which are separated by several soccer<br />

fields. Two of the <strong>Lake</strong>land Central School District schools are located in<br />

<strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong>: Van <strong>Cortlandt</strong>ville Elementary School and Walter Panas<br />

High School.<br />

The Aaron Copland House was listed on the National Register of Historic<br />

Places as a National Historic Landmark in 1973.<br />

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